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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 29.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2012 Mar 15;336(6078):193–198. doi: 10.1126/science.1216872

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Recombination rates around DNA repeat elements in chimpanzees and humans. (a) Recombination-influencing activity of repeat element families in chimpanzees and humans (HapMap). The value reported is the ratio of the peak rate to background rate, as estimated from the robust genetic map after fitting a Gaussian profile using maximum likelihood. Selected repeat elements are labelled. (b) Recombination rate profiles around selected repeat elements, as estimated in the robust map. Top: two elements (THE1B and LTR49) that are recombination-promoting in humans only. Middle: Elements that are recombination-promoting (CT-rich repeats) or recombination suppressing (L1PA2) in both humans and chimpanzees. Bottom: Two elements (GGAAn and MER92B) that are recombination-promoting in chimpanzees only.